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Frontier Central reviews enrollment trends, absorbs COVID-era positions and shifts HR systems
Summary
District HR staff presented a three-year enrollment and staffing review showing declining birth-rate cohorts, current enrollment just over 4,500, absorption of COVID-funded positions into the general fund, growing family home instruction numbers, and HR system upgrades including Schoolfront/Recruitfront and Red Rover.
Frontier Central School District staff presented a three-year review of enrollment and staffing and described human-resources changes, class-size calculations and family home-instruction trends at a board meeting.
The presenter reviewed birth-rate data from the New York State Department of Health covering 2010—2020 and said the district used cohort tracking to predict enrollment. He said average live births in earlier five-year spans fell from roughly 351 to about 322, and that the district's most recent live-birth figures for 2021 and 2022 were 307 and 308 respectively. The presenter described current district enrollment as "approximately just over 4,500 students," and said the last detailed figure he had was 4,530.
Staff said the district used federal COVID-era grants to add positions aimed at meeting students' social and emotional needs; those grants have ended and the board chose to continue those positions. "Each of the new positions that had been created ... has been rolled into our general fund," the presenter said.
The HR presentation reviewed average class-size targets and noted a key methodological point: the district's published average-class-size figures exclude students in most special-education placements and co-taught settings. The presenter said those averages cover general-education classroom loads only and that special-education settings require different ratios.
Board members and staff discussed the high-school cohort pipeline: staff said the district typically sees 35 to 45 students per year who do not continue from middle school to the district high school, and that some students attend BOCES programs or choose nonpublic/parochial options. Staff reported an increase in family home instruction numbers: the presenter said the district had about 150 students learning from home post-COVID, and that number had recently risen to about 160.
On HR operations, staff described several system changes and program improvements made this year. The district has moved recruiting and selection to Schoolfront and RecruitFront to reduce paper forms and streamline workflow; it has adopted Red Rover as a districtwide time-and-attendance and substitute-scheduling platform; and it is expanding a mentor-coordinator program aimed at supporting non-tenured teachers. The presenter said there are currently 40 non-tenured teachers in the district and that the mentor work is intended to address near-term staffing needs.
Ending: District staff said their longitudinal analysis will be used to refine staffing and program recommendations in upcoming budget work and enrollment planning.
